What if John McCain picks Hawaii governor Lisa Lingle instead of Alaska governor Sarah Palin for his running mate?
What if John McCain picks Hawaii governor Lisa Lingle instead of Alaska governor Sarah Palin for his running mate?
Linda Lingle.
The Battle of the Hawaiians, that would be. Similarities off the top of my head:
Differences off the top of my head:
- Another governor with that elusive "executive experience"
- Another governor with a high approval rating
- Another female
- Another politician from a state that won't swing
- Another politician from what The Simpsons call "the freak states" (AK and HI)
- Another pro-lifer (or at least opposes PBA and supports parental consent for minors seeking abortions)
- An observant Jew rather than a Pentacostal Christian - no extra incentives for the Evangelical Right to support the ticket
- Lingle has more experience: 6 years in office as governor to Palin's 1.5 years
- A moderate Republican: she would appeal to independents (or at least not repel them as Palin did).
- She would not necessarily fire up the base, but she would not repel the base, like some of McCain's pro-choice shortlist picks might have done.
- A moderate rather than an ultra-conservative (although Lingle is, once again, pro-life).
Lingle is not pro-life. She describes herself as pro-choice, and is a member of pro-choice organizations like Wish List (PAC for pro-choice GOP women) and the Republican Majority For Choice.
It might spell the end of the moderate GOP wing, or at least marginalize it more than it already has been.
I saw on a site that she opposes partial birth aboriton and wants parental permission for minors seeking abortions. Is that not considered prolife? I guess I misunderstood the term, if Lingle calls herself pro choice.
...No, in the States prolife means "any abortion, anywhere, anytime, anyway, is bad".
I'm from the States too.
I just think of pro choice as "any abortion, anywhere, anytime, anyway, is permissable." Is there a term for Lingle's moderated stance?